juliaoceania -> RE: As a submissive what is your biggest fear real or otherwise? (1/31/2007 9:00:36 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MaryT Sometimes I take questions too literally but ... 1) My biggest fear is dying, and there is no way I am going to escape that fate. It's not bad to think realistically about it because it can put other fears in perspective. 2) Second worse is either nuclear war or looking like a fool - and in a survey of college students, the latter came in at number one. 3) As far as losing a treasured intimate relationship - been there and I lived. Refer to #1. I wrote an essay once on a monster that I grew up with, and its name was "Something Bad." If I didn't do everything thing right, "Something Bad" was going to happen to me. "Something Bad" is going to happen to me (see #1, above), so it's crazy to spend time fretting the phantoms of lesser misfortune. IMO. MaryT You know Mary, there was a time back before people lived in cities and had cars, and roads and modern conveniences that if a relationship ended death would come. In other words, being abandoned meant death. It is why I think people hate being shunned so much. It is why I think we fear abandonment so deeply... because in evolutionary terms, being kicked out of the tribe meant you did not survive. People roamed and settled in small groups, and getting along was a matter of life or death. I think that is why abandonment is still so scary to so many.. especially those of us who have abandonment issues from childhood, as I do in the association of the death of a beloved parent.. Just some thoughts wandering about my melon when I read your candid post.
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